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Francis J. Sullivan is partner-in-charge of
Hill Wallack LLP’s Business & Commercial
and Trusts & Estates Practice Groups.
Mr. Sullivan represents corporate entities and partnerships in a wide variety of business transactions and related litigation. Clients count on Mr. Sullivan to advise them on issues that arise during the entire life cycles of their businesses, from start-up and acquisition, to disposition and estate planning.
He is a former Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, past president of the Bucks County Bar Association, and past president of the Charitable Foundation of the Bucks County Bar Association. He remains very active in the legal profession, as well as charitable and civic activities.
Representative Clients
Mr. Sullivan’s clients include family owned businesses and partnerships, as well as businesses in a number of industry sectors, such as financial services organizations and mortgage companies, automobile dealerships, construction and related trades, home heating fuel oil entities, professional firms (medical, legal and accounting), and publishing. He also represents individuals in commercial matters.
Representative Matters
- Negotiates and documents business entity sales and acquisitions, and advises on related real estate, tax and regulatory issues
- Obtains structured financing to further clients’ business needs, growth and development
- Advises on business entity planning, organizing, restructuring and governance (including documenting relationships between and among business entities and their owners)
- Negotiates, structures and drafts operating, partnership and shareholder agreements, agreements for retirement and buy-outs of partners and corporate owners, and assists with generational succession planning
- Litigates commercial disputes, including shareholder and business "divorces," entity liquidations, and restrictive covenants and protection of intellectual property and trade secrets
Leadership
Mr. Sullivan is a Hearing Committee Member of the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board, a current member of the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, a Life Time Fellow of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, and a member of the Inns of Court of Bucks County. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Bucks County Bar Association.
He is the current President of Family Service Association of Bucks County, the largest non-profit social service, counseling agency in Bucks County. In addition, he is actively involved in alumni affairs of La Salle University and is a former member of the La Salle University Alumni Board of Directors.
Mr. Sullivan earned both his Law Degree, and Master of Laws in Taxation, from Villanova University School of Law. He earned a Certificate in Estate Planning from the Graduate Tax Division of Temple University School of Law and obtained his B.A. from La Salle University.
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